Search Tool: Prehistoric monuments within 2km of SX56647354

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About the database: In all listings clicking on the photo will open a page for the site with a larger photo. The listings are drawn mainly from scientific journals and will not include the most recently discovered minor sites. There is comprehensive coverage of stone circles, stone rows and menhirs. Listings for cists and cairn circles should cover most of the better known sites. There are only partial entries for round cairns, settlements, pounds and none for reaves. For listings of specific types of monument click on Resources in the menu above. Corrections, or any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk.

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OS Map:SX 55368 74598NMR record:SX 57 SE 9HER record:3759Megalithic Portal:10501The Stone Rows of GB:Merrivale 4PMD:Merrivale MenhirAlternate name: Merrivale 6 (near standing stone) Encircled CairnShortName: EC:Merivale SButler map: 44.8.6Grinsell: WAL 6Turner: F19Notes: Turner F19. The cairn at SX 55367459, now turf-covered with an excavation pit in the centre, has a diameter of 2.4m. and a height of 0.1m. The photo shows the cairn just to the right of centre. The excavation pit can be seen. In the background is the recumbent slab by the tuft of vegetation. A very irregular "circle" of stones can be seen around this cairn. The large menhir's shadow can be seen in this photo.Nearby sites:SX55377460Distance: 1.65km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 2]OS Map:SX 55359 74599NMR record:SX 57 SE 9HER record:53395Megalithic Portal:115PMD:Merrivale Standing StoneShortName: SS:MerrivaleButler map: 44.8.4DPD page: 17Notes: "Two Bronze Age standing stones with a disturbed cairn and a number of small earth fast stones. Located in open generally clitter-free moorland. Only one of the two stones still stands; it is 3.2 metres high and tapers from the base which is 0.7 by 0.5 metres in section. Whether the stone was once the focus or terminus of a stone rows is uncertain. The second stone is now fallen, it is 2.2 metres long, up to 0.4 metres wide and 0.3 metres thick. An adjacent 0.3 metre deep pit may be its socket hole. "Nearby sites:SX55367460Distance: 1.66km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 1]OS Map:SX 55361 74592NMR record:SX 57 SE 9HER record:53397Megalithic Portal:3388The Stone Rows of GB:Merrivale 4PMD:Merrivale Menhir I Stone RowAlternate name: Merrivale 4 Stone RowShortName: SR:Mer MenhirButler map: 44.8.4DPD page: 17Notes:Butler Row 4. Prehistoric Monuments of Dartmoor website Menhir 1. "Stone row 4 is now a trivial affair [Butler] of 3 small slabs aligned towards a squarish block near the base of the standing stone. This area has suffered some damage over the past century. There were 5 stones in 1895, the missing one presumably accounted for by the pit which has appeared between the upper stones. This may well be the site of the cairn, C4, at the head of the rows recorded by Rowe but not included in the plans of Lukis or Worth. Nor is there much surviving from the circle of slabs around the menhir depicted in Bray's plan and recorded by Spence Bate in 1871, or the nearby cist which he excavated, C5. The Exploration Committee excavated at both ends of the row but no more socket holes were found and they concluded that this short alignment was complete." Lethbridge pp.16-18, diagram p.16.Nearby sites:SX55367459Distance: 1.66km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 1]OS Map:SX 55541 74809NMR record:SX 57 SE 12HER record:14797Megalithic Portal:2044The Stone Rows of GB:Merrivale 1PMD:Merrivale A Stone RowAlternate name: Merrivale 1 Stone RowShortName: SR:MerrivaleAButler map: 44.8.1DPD page: 16Notes:Worth Merrivale A. Butler Merrivale 1. "Two Bronze Age double stone rows and associated cairns are located on open moorland. The rows are oriented roughly east to west and are almost parallel, being 25 metres between centres at their eastern ends increasing to 32 metres at the west. A leat still used to convey water to Hillside Stables separates the two monuments and flows to within 2 metres of the northern row. A single row (see SX 57 SE 115) runs roughly south-west from a small cairn at SX 55397476, some 4.75 metres south of the south row." Lethbridge pp.16-18, diagram p.16.Nearby sites:SX55547481Distance: 1.68km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 1]OS Map:SX 55394 74761NMR record:SX 57 SE 115HER record:5001Megalithic Portal:3391The Stone Rows of GB:Merrivale 3PMD:Merrivale C Stone RowAlternate name: Merrivale 3 Stone RowShortName: SR:MerrivaleCButler map: 44.8.3DPD page: 17Notes:Butler Merrivale 3. Worth Merrivale C. "A stone row and a small cairn lie to the south of the double stone rows in close-cropped moorland turf. The cairn located at the northern end and slightly off-centre to the row, measures 3.2m across and up to 0.5m high. An 0.3m deep central pit opens out on the southern side. There is no obvious kerb or cist but a transverse slab, the terminal slab of the row, is set within the south side of the mound. The existence of this slab suggest that the row pre-dates the mound. The stone row extends for 41.7m in a southerly direction to an upright stone (SX553774720). However, during the English Heritage 1999 survey a further stone was located on the same alignment beyond this stone indicating an overall length for the row of at least 60m. The new partially buried stone at SX55337484 is visible as a rounded stone 0.15m across; it is similar to others in the row. A total of six upright stones, six stones protruding through the turf and about ten slight depressions, now indicate this 60m long alignment. The transverse stone within the cairn is 0.5m by 0.4 and 0.15m thick. The two adjacent in line slabs are 0.6m 0.3m by 0.15m and 0.3 by 0.2 and 0.2m thick respectively. The other large stone (SX55377472) is 0.5 by 0.4 and up to 0.4m thick. The other stones are up to 0.15m high." Lethbridge pp.16-18 Row C, diagram p.16.Nearby sites:SX55397476Distance: 1.75km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Walkhampton and Yes Tor Bottom SettlementsOS Map:SX 56740 72860NMR record:SX 57 SE 41HER record:4964Megalithic Portal:45325ShortName: ES:WalkhamptonNotes: "Hut circles 550m s of foggintor quarries. A very fine settlement, set within a well built and substantial enclosure wall, enclosing an area of some 1.0ha. Five hut circles occur within the enclosure varying between 6-10m in diam ... Outside the enclosure to the w are five further huts of similar dimensions - again one of these shows sign of alteration. Under moorland grass." The site was excavated in 1897 by Burnard and Baring-Gould.Nearby sites:SX56747286Distance: 0.69km